Drawing Quotes · Page 18

I'm just interested in meditating on certain ideas, and I like to draw: that's my way of thinking.

— Ben Nicholson

Drawing Is An Escape From All The Unecessary Things In Life That Get In The Way Of Being Free

— Jamie Hewlett

I love the creative process of drawing inspiration, sourcing different materials, and helping an idea come to life.

— Pokimane

A man sets himself the task of portraying the world. Shortly before he dies he discovers that this patient labyrinth of lines…

— Jorge Luis Borges

The tongue, the Chinese say, is like a sharp knife: it kills without drawing blood.

— Anne Sexton

I had drawings that were the first time that mathematics was put into visual form.

— Agnes Denes

When I'm painting and drawing I only do people. Acting is obviously portraiture - and writing is as well.

— Antony Sher

Sketching is a continuing source of learning rather than a string of performances.

— Paul Laseau

But when I worked on a painting I would do it from a drawing but I would put certain things I was…

— Roy Lichtenstein

I quit comics because I got completely sick of it. I was drawing comics all the time and didn't have the time…

— Julie Doucet

Since the age of six, I have had a passion for drawing things. Now that I am 75 years, I have finally…

— Hokusai

What actually happened was that Rolling Stone paid me fifteen hundred dollars for the use of all the drawings - about twenty…

— Ralph Steadman

I had a mind to make a body of more or less connected legend, ranging from the large and cosmogonic, to the…

— Anonymous

Drawing and color are not separate at all; in so far as you paint, you draw. The more color harmonizes, the more…

— Paul Cezanne

Terrorists are people, too - they are given to error. Naipaul and then DeLillo do a good job in their novels of…

— Karan Mahajan

Comics are so full of amazing work. And I can't look at a drawing of a woman without thinking of, for instance,…

— Frank Miller

When I say 'I will be true to you' I am drawing a quiet space beyond the reach of other desires.

— Jeanette Winterson

Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds actually wasn't meant to say LSD It was a drawing that John's son brought home from…

— Paul McCartney

Because when you love something, you want to do it all the time, even if no one is paying you for it.…

— Meg Cabot

I love drawing, whether it's considered work or not, but I'm always drawing, and that's the core of the work. Everything comes…

— Ryan McGinness

I started writing when I was 9 years old. I was like this weird kid who would just stay in my room,…

— R. L. Stine

I prefer a positive view of freedom, drawing on another tradition of political thinking that goes all the way back to the…

— David Blunkett

You are always drawing from your personal life and using your imagination to fill in the blanks.

— Diego Klattenhoff

All the plots of hell and commotions on earth have not so much as shaken God's hand to spoil one letter or…

— William Gurnall

I have kept a diary as long as I can remember, and drawings are really another kind of diary.

— Louise Bourgeois

Drawing inspiration from minnows that have done well is an easy thing to say, but it doesn't work like that in sports.

— Eidur Gudjohnsen

At one point people in al Qaeda were actually drawing monthly paychecks when they were based in Sudan.

— Peter Bergen

Adversity has the effect of drawing out strength and qualities of a man that would have laid dormant in its absence.

— Herodotus

Drawing is the first language of the human being before writing. It's a transcription of how the human being sees reality, not…

— Marjane Satrapi

I tended to faint when I saw accident victims in the emergency ward, during surgery, or while drawing blood.

— Michael Crichton

Mostly I wanted to be a writer, though for a couple of years there I wanted to be an animator, because I…

— Catherine Jinks

My drawing began as a way to count my blessings. To study, capture, catalog the things that, despite it all, make my…

— Danny Gregory

There is no such thing as Christian art or secular art - writing, painting, drawing, whatever it is.

— Christopher Priest

It is not the bee's touching on the flowers that gathers the honey, but her abiding for a time upon them, and…

— Joseph Hall

Draw, as much and as often as you can. When drawing lies fallow, the skill diminishes.

— Gene Black

I want to do drawings which touch some people... In either figure or landscape I wish to express, not sentimental melancholy, but…

— Vincent Van Gogh

I enjoy the art, and I enjoy drawing. I think my printing to this day looks like the printing right out of…

— Nathan Fillion

You've seen the first issue and what happened in the last page. Some pretty awful stuff. I don't know why I seem…

— Declan Shalvey

Lose your schematic conventions by finding some surprising symbol or shape in the welter of shades, and draw that.

— Adam Gopnik

The history of drawing is a history of 'realities'. Every age has its own conceptions, held to be true at that time,…

— Howard Scott Warshaw